Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 18:19:43 +0530 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Johnny Wu <jwu@apexusa.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: DPT SmartRAID V (was: DPT SmartRAID IV drivers almost released?) Message-ID: <20000120181943.N533@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.01.10001171514210.18812-100000@apexusa.com>; from jwu@apexusa.com on Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 03:35:07PM -0800 References: <Pine.BSF.4.01.10001171514210.18812-100000@apexusa.com>
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On Monday, 17 January 2000 at 15:35:07 -0800, Johnny Wu wrote: > > I have a question regarding DPT drivers for their 4th generation SmartRAID > products. It looks to me like you're talking about the SmartRAID V. We already have drivers for the SmartRaid IV. > It looks like they are coming out soon with their FreeBSD drivers, > including a neat command-line tool to monitor/configure the system > (although I got conflicting messages, see below). Indeed, I see nothing of this below. > Is it better to wait for these drivers to get into a -RELEASE, or > just use DPT developed drivers when (and if) they do get released? I wouldn't hold my breath for DPT to do something. They've been a very unreliable source of information in the past. > I'm primary interested in implementing a hot-swappable spare RAID > 0/1 configuration, and according to the mailing lists, but you can't > tell if a failure occurs on FreeBSD with 3rd generation DPT > controllers, is that right? I don't know about that, but the performance of the III and IV leaves something to be desired. > Also, is it true that you can can boot off of a logical drive on a DPT > RAID array? I'm also hearing conflicting information on whether you need > a independent drive to boot or not. I don't think so. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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